Pompeii 3D is a swords-and-sandals disaster epic that contains all the B-movie tropes you might hope for... The only element missing is a decent script.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 2, 2015

Hammy performances, poor editing, straight-to-DVD special effects, and bland direction.

| Original Score: D- | Apr 23, 2015

It's entertainingly silly stuff with an 'oh, no - they wouldn't?' finale of the ooziest toasted cheese.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 13, 2014

Rubbish, then, but laughable rubbish - often more "with it" than "at it".

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 4, 2014

It's all preposterously enjoyable, far more so than those impervious superheroes chucking each other about yet again.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 2, 2014

Undoubtedly watchable.

| May 1, 2014

Finally, Mount Vesuvius erupts in a fury, possibly in response to the dialogue it has been forced to hear, and all of Pompeii resembles an explosion in a crematorium.

| May 1, 2014

Better than it had any right to be.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 1, 2014

Over-reaching and unintentionally amusing, this is straight-to-video quality inexplicably delivered at blockbuster scale. A thunderous volca-NO.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 27, 2014

It's an average modern actioner: driven by technology, careless of the past, casually insulting to the audience, mindless in its violence. Vesuvius 1, movie-lovers nil.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 21, 2014

It never aims at anything more than the most superficial entertainment.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 14, 2014

Wherefore art thou, Steve Reeves?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 27, 2014

Is it wrong to root for the volcano?

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 23, 2014

Parmageddon is nigh in this cheesy action melodrama that feels both overheated with plot developments, yet strangely curdled from a lack of histrionics that might have redeemed it as fun trash.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 21, 2014

Narrative has never been Anderson's strength; the story here is a corny overhaul of James Cameron's already-corny Titanic.

| Feb 21, 2014

No matter how much lava is afoot, there's always time to impale one more person with a sword.

| Feb 21, 2014

The closing images-of a self-annihilating, all-consuming passion that will be preserved for centuries-[obliterate] the line between the ridiculous and the sublime.

| Feb 21, 2014

A mindless but watchable fondue pot of high-calorie visuals and ready-made plotting ...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 21, 2014

If you were hoping 'Pompeii' would ditch the lava in exchange for nonsensical political and romantic melodrama, Paul W.S. Anderson's latest is for you - and probably only you.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 21, 2014

More fun than any civilization's fiery extinction should ever be, Paul W.S. Anderson's Pompeii 3-D is gloriously exciting kitsch - a poor man's Titanic crossed with an even poorer man's Gladiator.

| Feb 21, 2014